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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:23:38 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small 
Message-ID:  <199801142323.PAA08559@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:27:34 PST." <XFMail.980114122734.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> 

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>On 13-Jan-98 David Greenman wrote:
>>>       vnodes145070 24237K  24237K 39322K   246196    0     0  16,32,256
>> 
>>    Huh - 145070 vnodes? How much physical memory is in this machine? I
>> have
>> a gigabyte of RAM in wcarchive and it peaks at about 87,000. This looks
>> like
>> a vnode leak to me. Which version of FreeBSD is this?
>
>384MB or RAM. 3.0-current as of 12-Jan.
>
>What do I do about the vnode leak?

   I guess you wait until John has fixed the leak - I'm pretty sure this is
one of the recent bugs that he's been working on resolving.

>The way to trigger it is to cd into one LARGE directory and do
>``find . | cpio -dmpv /Destination''
>
>
>>>Memory Totals:  In Use    Free    Requests
>>>                57971K    554K     4718664
>
>I have seen the FREE go down to 38K or so.

   "Free" doesn't matter; ignore that.

>>    ...no surprise that the machine is panicing.
>
>Dumb Question:  Which is the alert and why?

  "In Use" is in outer space.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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